France Weighs New Tax to Fund Film, Music Industries

PARIS—The French government is considering a new tax on smartphones, and broadening existing taxes to apply to foreign video-streaming companies, as it looks for ways to keep financing its cinema, music and literature in the digital age.

A French government panel, created last fall to recommend updates to the country's decades-old thicket of cultural aids and taxes, published on Monday a 700-page report whose 80 recommendations would,...